Hypertext Webster Gateway: "onset"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Onset \On"set`\, v. t.
1. To assault; to set upon. [Obs.]

2. To set about; to begin. [Obs.] --Carew.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Onset \On"set`\, n. [On + set.]
1. A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a
storming; especially, the assault of an army. --Milton.

The onset and retire Of both your armies. --Shak.

Who on that day the word of onset gave.
--Wordsworth.

2. A setting about; a beginning. [Obs.] --Shak.

There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time
the beginnings and onsets of things. --Bacon.

3. Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful
appendage. [Obs.] --Johnson.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

onset
n 1: the beginning or early stages; "the onset of pneumonia"
[syn: {oncoming}]
2: an offensive against and enemy (using weapons); "the attack
began at dawn" [syn: {attack}, {onslaught}, {onrush}]


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